So...

[EPW]

...I'm voting for a 3rd party candidate, is Nader still alive?

[BeBMan]

Yes

[BeBMan]

BTW, who will he pick as his VP?

[EPW]

Cheney

[BeBMan]

[DRoseDARs]

Other Parties

Independants

Edit: I'm not sure why both links are being crappy. Probably has to do with how Poly deals with certain combos of symbols in html or whatever.

[BeBMan]

Boston Tea Party....are they any good?

[EPW]

Why are they all so horrible?

The Greens and the Socialists should combine. No commies though

[BeBMan]

Che/Kid 2012

[EPW]

Really, the liberal democrats should break off, combine with the Greens, and form the Progressive party.

[BeBMan]

I'd vote the liberal fascists

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by EPW
Why are they all so horrible?

One-trick pony parties suck universally, and most people realize that Libertarian parties (there are several, they just go by different names) are cute in theory, but suck at governance. See: US Articles of Confederation. We've been there, we've done that, we moved on to the US Constitution and representative democracy after a few years of that nonsense. I'm sorry, but Libertarian government isn't democracy, it's ineffectual rule-by-committee.

As for the Commie/Socialist and Green parties (but I repeat myself ), I've little to add. I wish the Greens were a little more effective and frankly, alongside the Libertarian Party proper, they stand the best chance of being larger players. But I doubt that will happen anytime in the next few decades. The Democratic and Republican Parties shall continue. Though, I imagine the Republicans will be crippled for the next few years thanks to the valiant efforts of the Bush WH and its enablers to completely corrupt the party from within. Go Team Bush!

[DRoseDARs]

lol Cover of latest Rolling Stone magazine:

http://www.rollingstone.com/issue1060

[Japher]

I think the elections should be held a la American/British/Whatever Idol slash Big Brother, complete with Simon Scowl and Paula Abhor critiquing the candidates and food challenges!

You take the top 12 ppl who, for some reason, want to be president. You lock them in a house, cut off from outside media and influence (very important) and hook up a live 24 hour video feed to this house. Then you give them food challenges (just for fun) and a list of questions and/or debates they will be expected to speak to on live TV before our panel of judges. There will be competitions each week to determine who gets what question/debate.

Each week Americans, or anyone with a phone, can call in and vote up to 5 times (or 10 times by internet) for their favorite candidate. Those with the lowest two scores will be forced to play a random Japanese game show game, and the one who loses goes home.

This, my friends, is the best and only way presidents should be elected.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs


One-trick pony parties suck universally, and most people realize that Libertarian parties (there are several, they just go by different names) are cute in theory, but suck at governance. See: US Articles of Confederation. We've been there, we've done that, we moved on to the US Constitution and representative democracy after a few years of that nonsense. I'm sorry, but Libertarian government isn't democracy, it's ineffectual rule-by-committee.

I think we've got more effective nonsense today.